To what does Dante seem to allude when, in Canto 33, he writes, “mine were not the wings for such a flight. / Yet as I wished, the truth I wished for came”?

a. knowledge bestowed through Divine grace
b. knowledge achieved through rational inquiry
c.knowledge arrived at through chance
d. knowledge discovered by trial and error


Answer: a

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